Well, at least Bell Biv Devoe’s “Poison” is percolating in the background.

There, we said something nice about the first teaser trailer for Lifetime’s The Unauthorized Saved By the Bell Story — a pastiche of groan-inducing dialogue, clichéd “they only smiled when the cameras were on” plot lines and visual reminders of just how much the average telephone has shrunk over the last two decades.

Hate to admit it, but I know I’ll see this when it hits. So will my GF, as we both grew up in the era of Saturday Morning TV and shows like Saved By The Bell (aka Good Morning Miss Bliss) and California Dreams.

Hopefully it doesn’t suck horribly, but again I’m not expecting Shakespeare.

OMG California Dreams! I loved that show! As for this garbage it’s just sad that anyone would take Dustin Diamond’s book seriously enough to make a TV special let alone a whole TV movie. I don’t want to look back on a show from my childhood and see how dysfunctional it allegedly was. I’d rather they scrap this and just show a few hours worth of Saved By the Bell reruns!

Yep. Dustin wasn’t a well-behaved youngster. My mother’s friend had a son that ended up buddies with Dustin for a while, and pretty much all Dustin did was party, so she was pretty worried about him being a bad influence on her kid until her son lost interest in the friendship and moved on. This was back in the ’90s, so I don’t remember how they met anymore.

For years I thought the show was the worst thing on tv and yet they made a bad TV movie about a bad TV show and is Lifetime wondering what could have gone wrong????? Maybe they’re hoping for Sharknado bad

I’m a SoCal native, so I went to a taping of Saved By the Bell The College Years when I was in high school. Granted, the cast was older then, adults, but everything was totally professional. It’s not the only show I’ve seen taped, so I had some comparison, and yeah, no problems. I watched SBtB from Zach in junior high all the way to the end of content. Watched some of The New Class, but that didn’t have the same magic. California Dreams was in that line-up, too. Ah, memories….